President Vladimir Putin, who started his career as a KGB agent, is apparently set to revive a notorious counterintelligence agency from the days of dictator Josef Stalin. It appears in a recent intelligence analysis prepared by the British Ministry of Defence. “At the end of 2023, Russian politicians claimed that the Soviet counterintelligence agency ‘Smersh’ … Read more
The leading contemporary Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare has again become a holder of the French Legion of Honor. The highest state award for civilian or military services to the nation was awarded to him by French President Emmanuel Macron during his visit to Tirana this Monday, AFP reported. Kadare already held the lower rank of … Read more
CTK Updated 19 minutes ago Karolína Baranová and Martin Pechlát won the Thália Award for the best performance in a drama this year. Baranová received it for her portrayal of Marie Antoinette in David Adjmi’s production of the same name, presented by the FX Šaldy Theater in Liberec. Pechlát was awarded for the role named … Read more
Gaijin is quite famous for its unconventional events in War Thunder. They mostly involved an April Fool’s prank where the developers tried out some new game mechanic that was later added to the game. Now the worlds of the Soviet shooter Atomic Heart and War Thunder will come together. You will have the opportunity to … Read more
Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who was a Soviet and later Russian spy for many years, died Monday at the age of 79 in a federal prison in Florence, Colorado. An American website reported on the death CBS News. “Service of Corrections found him unconscious in his cell and immediately began CPR on Hanssen,” U.S. … Read more